Gravitational Waves due to mass and acceleration

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Inspiraling binary stars generate gravitational waves, raising the question of whether a massive object accelerated to high speeds could emit more gravity. However, a rotating, uniform disk does not produce gravitational waves. The gravitational waves that can be realistically generated are too weak to have significant effects on matter. The concept of "emitted amount of gravity" remains undefined in this context. Overall, the discussion highlights the limitations of current technology in manipulating gravitational waves for practical applications.
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According to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_radiation
Inspiraling binary stars create gravitonic waves. This leads me to ask: If an amount of material with sufficient mass is accelerated to an extremely high speed (ideally a percentage of C but everyone knows that's impossible with our tech) Would that material emit a larger amount of gravity?

The reason I ask is that if the above case is true, a sufficiently dense, large and strong rotating disk, rotating at a sufficiently high speed would be able to generate gravitonic waves which could be used for practical gravitational lensing of multiple particle streams.
 
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Please define "emitted amount of gravity".
A rotating, uniform disk will not emit gravitational waves.

Any gravitational waves you can realistically produce are way too weak to give any interesting effects on matter.
 
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